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MMO Environmental Art

by Paul Yoskowitz · in Artist Corner · 03/04/2012 (10:01 pm) · 8 replies

I know that we have a few environmental art packs available in the GG store. HOWEVER, how many of them are MMO (NOT FPS) friendly? do any of them come with the source files so we can work with the files if we need to lower the poly count?

if there isnt, can someone suggest a good site?

Id really rather not try to find an environmental artist to do this ESP if there is a much simplier solution.

thanks!
Paul
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Torque Owner Dan Webb
PsyCandy Games
#1
03/04/2012 (10:19 pm)
@Paul ~ Most art these days seems to be very poly-concious. If you really needed to lower the poly count of your rocks, trees etc., then I believe you could just play with the LOD levels until you have something that's a bit faster to load.

Not to come off as all fanboish here, but Dexsoft have a lot of low-poly stuff. I think Monster Packs is also quite overhead concious.

Torque Owner Christian S
Oak-Entertainment
#2
03/05/2012 (1:34 am)
To list those that one consider FPS unfriendly, badly modelled/unwrapped and horribly terturized would only result in a derailment of this thread. All i can say from my experience with indie packs, is that if you get any -make sure there are source files in the pack so you can tweak as needed.

Torque 3D Owner Paul Yoskowitz
WinterLeaf Entertainment
#3
03/05/2012 (7:43 am)
@Dan - thank you for the suggestions. Ill look into those more.

@Christian - if u would like, email me at pyoskowitz(at)winterleafentertainment(dot)com and we can discuss it privately

Ahsan Muzaheed
Default Studio Name
#4
03/05/2012 (9:00 am)
3drt.com
i never have used any products of them .but my friends have used them.
3drt's packs are expensive but highly optimized.

on other side their opinion on most of the dexsoft's product is completely different.specially on texture.

i have worked with Monster Pack's contents.they works superb with t3d.
try their ancient persia pack.even with low configuration(gpu) pc fps is high.




Torque Owner Jonathon Yurth
#5
03/05/2012 (4:45 pm)
I don't know what your budget is like, but you could look into SpeedTree for Games. I think they have an Indie license.

You'd still have to generate your own content with the tool though, so it might be a waste of time for you (if you are looking for prebuilt stuff).

Torque Owner Richard Preziosi
WinterLeaf Entertainment
#6
03/05/2012 (5:29 pm)
I can answer that for Paul. We are self funded so we have to make sure we get the best bang for our buck. Thats a valid idea though, Im just not sure how much of a realistic possibility.

Shane Lunsford
N/A
#7
03/16/2012 (8:54 pm)
I got plant life from TGC and used it to make some pretty cool plants and things when i was messing around with realm crafter you might check it out and the new price is indie friendly

Torque Owner Giorgio Zanetti ( JoZ )
Corona Team
#8
10/03/2012 (2:19 pm)
My experience with PlantLife and TreeMagik is that I was able to run them at the era of WinXP only before Service Pack 3 ... After that the darkness...

They tried to solve the problem but without success and in the end they gave me a refund...

Very sad because they were a nice product for indie.